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<span class=large>AMOS</span>
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CHAPTER 1
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Amos shows the Lord’s judgments upon Syria, the Philistines, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon.
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&nbsp;&nbsp;1 <span class='smallcaps'>
The</span> words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/1/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 1: 1.">Uzziah</a> king of Judah, and in the days of <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/1/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Amos 7: 10.">Jeroboam</a> the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/1/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="Zech. 14: 5.">earthquake</a>.
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And he said, The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/1/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 31: 4; Jer. 25: 30.">roar</a> from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/1/2b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR pastures.">habitations</a> of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away <i>the punishment</i> thereof; because they have <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/1/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 13: 7.">threshed</a> Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
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But I will send a fire into the house of <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/1/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 8: 12; 2 Kgs. 10: 32; 2 Kgs. 13: 3.">Hazael</a>, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
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I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away <i>the punishment</i> thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver <i>them</i> up to Edom:
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But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
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And I will cut off the inhabitant from <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/1/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 3: 9.">Ashdod</a>, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/1/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 14: 31 (29-32); Jer. 47: 1; Ezek. 25: 15 (15-16).">Philistines</a> shall perish, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>.
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&#182; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; For three transgressions of <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/1/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 23: 1; Ezek. 26: 2.">Tyrus</a>, and for four, I will not turn away <i>the punishment</i> thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/1/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Brotherhood and Sisterhood.">brotherly</a> covenant:
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But I will send a fire on the wall of <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/1/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zech. 9: 3 (3-4).">Tyrus</a>, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
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&#182; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; For three transgressions of <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/1/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 49: 7.">Edom</a>, and for four, I will not turn away <i>the punishment</i> thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
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But I will send a fire upon <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/1/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Obad. 1: 9 (9-10).">Teman</a>, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
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&#182; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away <i>the punishment</i> thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
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But I will kindle a fire in the wall of <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/1/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 49: 2; Ezek. 21: 20; Ezek. 25: 5 (4-5).">Rabbah</a>, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
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And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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